Our faculty members are highly qualified professionals who offer preparation for conservatory exams, post-secondary entrance auditions and festival appearances.
Find a teacher by scrolling through our list or clicking on a name below.
Deborah Miles
Rachel Casponi Heidi Muendel
Annette Dominik Cvetozar Vutev Sandra Wilmot
Cvetozar Vutev
Martin Kratky
Catharine Dochstader Bailey Finley
Sally Arai
Nicholas Dyson
Jane Dyck
Clarinet & Saxophone
Voice
Rachel Casponi is a performer, director and educator holding a Bachelor of Arts in Music and Drama from University of Windsor and a Masters of Music from University of Western Ontario. She has worked across Canada including with BC’s North Peace Community Choir that she led at their Carnegie Hall performance. A regular performer with the Chamber Musicians of Kamloops and director of local choirs, Rachel teaches for Kamloops-Thompson School District and Kamloops Music Collective. She is very comfortable with both classical and musical theatre repertoire.
Flute and Flute Choir
Violin
Trumpet
Nicholas Dyson recently relocated to the interior of beautiful British Columbia from Ottawa. While in Ottawa, Nicholas regularly performed with local and traveling musicians. Over the years, he has worked with numerous local and international musical legends and has also played with the National Arts Centre Orchestra Pops, Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Gatineau, Capital Brassworks, and in the pit orchestras of many musical theatres shows such as Book of Mormon and Motown The Musical.
Music for Young Children®
Flute
Bailey Finley is a diverse flautist who avidly promotes new music. Her specialty is working with composers to develop new repertoire for the flute.
She is a co-founder of Trio Taco, a new music group that works to make contemporary music more approachable through education. With the trio, Finley has premiered numerous works and performed across Canada. During summer 2018 the trio completed a successful educational tour in Ontario featuring music by living composers.
Finley is an active performer in Victoria’s new music scene often collaborating with the Victoria Composers Collective and other local composers. She was a guest artist for the Victoria Composers Collective during their 2018 Okanagan tour and performer/organizer for their 3rd annual Oak Bay New Music Festival. Outside of the new music scene, Finley also pairs with Emily MacCallum to create a celtic flute and fiddle duo. February 2018 they hosted An Evening of Celtic Music in Kamloops, BC, which raised enough money to send a student to Kamloops Interior Summer School of Music.
Bailey values the sense of community and belonging that music can create and is working to help share this with as many people as possible. Many of her projects feature educational components, sliding scale admission fees and diverse composer demographics.
Cello
Piano & Music Theory
Heidi Muendel (MMus), Dramatic Soprano has a Masters Degree in Music, is a trained opera singer, voice teacher and performer for over 25 years, and dynamic workshop leader. Heidi has recently moved from Germany back to her hometown, and looks forward to creating a safe and playful space to discover your unique voice.
Heidi works with singers of all genres with careful focus on vocal freedom, technique, performance quality, and vocal health. Her approach includes an honouring of the ‘whole’ singer, and is most effective for singers available to: change, discovering their own authenticity, and a bit of silliness.
Heidi has traveled and performed in Canada, United States, Germany, Austria, and Italy. She is the founder of the Life-Sound Studio, Frankfurt where she taught: private voice lessons, singing workshops and ‘Mini Musik’. She was team and workshop leader at the LIGHTHOUSE in Wiesbaden, and is currently providing an annual summer Festival of Singing in Germany, teaching locally in person, and internationally online
Violin, Viola, Chamber Music, Youth String Orchestra, Country Fiddle, Bluegrass
Sandra Wilmot is a Kelowna-based freelance violinist, educator, piano accompanist, clinician, journalist, and award-winning composer. She plays regularly with both the Okanagan and Kamloops Symphony Orchestras and maintains a large studio of private students and string ensembles at the Kelowna Community Music School, Kamloops Symphony Music School, and Penticton Academy of Music. She has played professionally with various other orchestras across Canada, including the Saskatoon Symphony, and has attended many prominent orchestral and early music intensive summer programs. Sandra has also worked extensively as a classroom music teacher and has taught at various summer music camps throughout the B.C. Interior and currently runs one of B.C.’s largest string camps, Strings the Thing which takes place every July in Kelowna. Sandra is a graduate of the University of British Columbia.